The Roman theatre in Bosra by Alessandra Kocman This is the second part of the post series dedicated to quality of automated tests. In the previous part I wrote about test names and granularity. Today I am going to focus on test data setup, its readability and how it is related with the evolution of … Continue reading "Storytelling with tests #2: setting up the stage"
Read MoreAt Tratif we believe that contributing to open-source software has very positive effect on organizations and individual developers. We rely on open-source software in almost every project that we have delivered. This is the foundation of our approach: open and proven solutions of highest quality and the fastest approach to fixing issues, supported by the … Continue reading "Open-source for the win! Benefits of contributing to OSS"
Read MoreRebasing in Git is a very useful feature which helps to maintain a readable commit history. Interactive mode of the rebasing is one of the most powerful tools which Git provides. In this post I am going to present interactive rebase and show how you can leverage it in daily work with your repository. Git … Continue reading "The power of Git interactive rebase"
Read MoreVery often you can hear that automated tests provide a great documentation of the production code. Such documentation is more fun to write and is always up to date (of course as long as you actually run your tests). A new developer may take a look on the tests to get familiar with the project. … Continue reading "Storytelling with tests #1: test names and granularity"
Read MoreThere are many guidelines and patterns for optimizing performance of web applications. I would like to address and confront one of them: minimizing the number of database queries (or web service calls) per request. It sounds like a good heuristic – each network round-trip (e.g. to and from the DB) takes several milliseconds and impacts the overall response time. So having fewer queries is indeed the right approach for many cases. However, I would like to highlight some situations, when better way is to do the opposite.
Read MoreGit is probably the most popular distributed version control system. When used properly, it allows a team to be extremely effective. When misused, it can create a total mess out of the code base. Every now and then you end up in a situation, when you have to undo your actions — it can include invalid file edits or deletions or even improperly executed Git commands.
Read MoreObject Relational Mapping frameworks, such as Hibernate, very often provide a way to automatically generate the database schema based on persistent classes. While it is very convenient as a proof of concept or for very simple applications, it is not a production ready approach. In reality you have to write scripts to version your schema … Continue reading "Automated validation of DB schema migrations"
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Flexible RESTful search is very often a must-have for a web application. While the concept is easy and not new, it is very often implemented in a repetitive and tedious way. In this post I will demonstrate an effective way of implementing search API with Spring Data and Specification Argument Resolver. Naive approach With Spring … Continue reading "Effective RESTful search API in Spring"
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